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The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945 (Latin America Otherwise)
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by Peter M. Beattie and Peter M. Beattie
Sales Rank: 562130
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Cover Type: Paperback with 390 pages
Published by: Duke University Press August 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822327430
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822327431
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Hendrik Kraay, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"[I]nnovative, insightful. . . . [T]his work is sure to provoke debate. . . ."
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"[I]nnovative, insightful. . . . [T]his work is sure to provoke debate and help to bring army enlisted men into the mainstream of social and cultural history."
--Hendrik Kraay, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Beattie has uncovered a marvelous array of sources to shape his story, ranging from political cartoons and parliamentary debates to a voluminous assortment of army documents, and his meticulous research should be unconditionally lauded."
--James N. Green, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe {Interdisciplinary Studies of Latin America and the Caribbean)
"Beattie draws on a wide range of sources, including eighteenth-century songs, soldiers’ tattoos, congressional records, and cartoons (some marvelous examples of which are included in his book). The result is a highly original work that is not only a political history but also a social study that evokes the daily concerns and social pressures that people faced in late imperial and early Republican Brazil. . . . Beattie’s work reinvigorates political history by uniting it with social and cultural history. . . . [R]emarkable. . . . His study is . . . relevant to a broad audience, not only those interested in Latin American militiaries, but also anyone studying state-making in the developing world. Free of jargon, theoretically sophisticated, and based on a rich array of sources, this work will likely become a staple in a wide range of classes. . . ."
--Shawn Smallman, Hispanic American Historical Review
"[A] fascinating and sensitive analysis of the Brazilian military from 1850 to 1916. . . . The book is rich and complex. . . ."
--Cliff Welch, Labor History
"[An] great study [of] . . . the Brazilian army as a prime source for the social, institutional, and cultural history of the country."
--Thomas Skidmore, The Journal of Military History
"[I have] unreserved admiration for Beattie’s book. It is not just a pathbreaking and engrossing study of the military and masculinity in Brazil; it is also one of the very best historical treatments of nation building and national identity in postcolonial Latin America."
--Barbara Weinstein, American Historical Review
"Peter M. Beattie's The Tribute of Blood . . . offers bold and innovative interpretations about the modernization process of the Brazilian army and its relationship to notions of race and nation-building. . . . [R]epresents the best in how a new generation of historians of Brazil has linked the methods of social history to questions of power, politics, race, and the state."
--James N. Green, Latin American Research Review
"This landmark study is one of the richest sources on the social history of Brazil between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. . . . While this book should attract the interest of scholars both in Brazil and of the military in Latin American and is easily accessible to undergraduates, it is a project that should also be read by all scholars interested in concepts of whiteness and masculinity."
--Jerry Dávila, Journal of Social History
"The Tribute of Blood is a superb study of the relationships between masculine honor, race, nationalism, and the army during the period of nation-state formation in Brazil."
--Michael R. Hall, The Latin Americanist
Reader Reviews
This well-researched book breaks new ground in Brazil's military and social history. It explores the paradox of using the army to build national identity with forced enlistment from marginal social groups---including convicts, vagrants and homosexuals. The army became a feared fighting force, but mostly by crushing internal rebels and smaller neighbors like Paraguay, not first-rate opponents. Brazilians came to dread military service, avoiding it whenever possible, and eventually a less arbitrary recruitment system emerged. Beattie paints a convincing picture of the evolution of a major institution in modern Brazil. His broad approach to evidence, deploying an impressive array of conventional and innovative sources, further displays the potential of this new military history. T. Whigham's "I Die With My Country" and "The Paraguayan War" have important new material on the War of the Triple Alliance. The army's bloody role in suppressing dissent is covered, often brilliantly, in R. Levine, "Vale of Tears," T. Diacon, "Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality," and especially E. da Cunha, "Rebellion in the Backlands." S. Caulfield, "In Defense of Honor" is another fresh view of Brazilian society in the same era, but Beattie really does offer something new.
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